Rebecca Tapscott

Friends, if you or someone you know has published awesome work in disability studies (defined *broadly*), please let me know! I'm updating my "Disability: A Democratic Dilemma" course and would love to include some newer work (both academic and otherwise).

There are studentships to do PhD research with my colleagues - or indeed with me! Check out the link below for details of how to apply - but don't leave it too long, as the application deadline is coming up next week

Join us on Thursday @africamultiple.bsky.social
@terrefebiruk.bsky.social
@benjaminkirby.bsky.social

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⚙️ #ecprjs26 Call for Papers buff.ly/oKqKLsj

• Receive in-depth feedback
• Build lasting scholarly networks

✔️ 35 confirmed Workshops buff.ly/mXDmfPt
📍 7–10 April, University of Innsbruck
⌛ Submit by 10 Dec

#cfp #PoliSky

Excited to announce that, together with @yoramhaftel.bsky.social, I am co-organising the workshop 'Global Governance in Times of Disruption' at next year's @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions of Workshops.

Details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Join us in Innsbruck to discuss this crucial topic!

3 PhD scholarship in digital war studies, University of Edinburgh:
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Our brilliant Reviews Editors @drincon.bsky.social and @rtapscott.bsky.social are seeking expressions of interest for the journal's revamped reviews section. We look forward to seeing exciting and creative proposals! www-tandfonline-com.brad.idm.oclc.org/action/autho...

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#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social -

Ethical Considerations for SoTL Research in Political Science Education - cup.org/4mBpnGq

"Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)"

- @jeremymoulton.bsky.social ‬& @rtapscott.bsky.social

#FirstView

Thanks to the @civilwarpaths.bsky.social research team for your contributions & @filippodionigi.bsky.social @rtapscott.bsky.social @marniehowlett.bsky.social for bringing this Forum together!
#UKRIFLF
@uoypolitics.bsky.social

Forum: Rethinking Ethics Review for International Relations Research

📢 Forum written together with:
➡️ @marniehowlett.bsky.social
➡️@rtapscott.bsky.social
➡️@grace-akello.bsky.social
➡️Mousumi Mukherjee
➡️Natalia Otrishcenko
➡️Anastasia Shesterinina

📑Rethinking Ethics Review for International Relations Research
@ispjournal.bsky.social

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🗓️🔔 CfP for CPE's upcoming workshop on "Doing Ethnography in Political Contexts or Doing Politics via Ethnography?" July 2nd!
If you want feedback on working papers&projects, and use qualitative methodologies, this workshop is for you. Some bursaries are available. Please share! More info below:

Thrilled to see my new article in @pspolisci.bsky.social, published open access on first view today: ‘Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?’

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

One reviewer still needed!

Thank you to our stellar roundtable panel for a fascinating discussion on the present and future of the field of civil wars research today! Lots of ideas and food for thought for both journal and field more broadly #ISA2025

Civil Wars is at #ISA2025 @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social do join us!

🧩Workshop on Rebel Finance and the Financialisation of Rebel Governance, Saturday @ 8am

🪁Roundtable on Reimagining the Field, Sunday @ 1.45pm

🥂Drinks Reception, Sunday @ 7.45pm

Feel free to DM or email us to discuss projects!

MoPED Workshop Berlin Meeting on the Political Economy of Development (MoPED) -- The MoPED workshop offers an opportunity for scholars who focus on the political economy of development, broadly defined, to build...

🚨 please share!

We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June.

This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers.

Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️

www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

🚨 Fully funded PhDs at the University of Glasgow! 🚨

We are offering 5 PhD studentships, incl. 3 for low/middle-income country applicants @uofgsps.bsky.social.

📍 Apply by 31 March 2025 👉 shorturl.at/tutIq

🔎 Anyone interested in a migration/refugee politics or MENA-related project, get in touch!

Just a reminder! Come join our wonderful department. We are hiring a senior lecturer and associate senior lecturer @uupeace.bsky.social

Writing about ethical challenges in Neurology and seeking your most vexing recent ethical problems. "When surrogates choose suffering" is one that troubles me. Any thoughts from others?

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, February 15, 2025

We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science.

75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city.

Deadline: February 15

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Text: Ethical Dilemma A researcher setting out to undertake participant-observation with the aspiration of creating an ethnography, or an account of people and their social world, will not know what they might encounter once they are in the field. Just as the lab scientist will not know what the results of her experiment might be before she concludes it, neither does the social scientist know what she might find in advance. ... If we knew what we were going to find, we wouldn’t need to undertake the research. The problem for the ethnographer is not that she is unable to predict what she will find, but that she will be unable to predict exactly how she will go about exploring her object of study. A participant-observer who wants to understand the world from the vantage point of another person, or from within a particular social setting, must follow that person, or inhabit that setting, and not direct them. For example, an ethnographer will not know in advance how someone’s daily routines might play out, and yet they will seek to participate in these to understand how they experience their lives. ... ... This intrinsic uncertainty about not just what will be found during the research process but how the process will unfold is particularly problematic for ethnographers when they come to complete the research ethics application form that requires the research interventions or procedures to be specified in advance. The tension between the anticipatory regulatory regime and the emergent nature of ethnography in healthcare is discussed in detail by Murphy and Dingwall (2007). They focus on the difficulties of obtaining written consent without knowing in advance exactly what the research will involve and, therefore, when there is lack of clarity as to what the research participant might be consenting. They caution against an overly bureaucratic process of prior approval as this can over-shadow the need for researchers to respond ethically to dilemmas as they arise.

Ethnography & ethical approval

from Hughes, G., & Emmerich, N., (2018). Ethnography and ethics: Securing permission for doctoral research in and from the national health service

#ethics #ethnography

Natalia Forrat on X: "I will probably never run a real marathon. But I just finished my academic marathon: I published a book :) https://t.co/h69jERWbAZ Keep reading if you are interested in authoritarianism and/or Russia. Link to a free chapter at the end of the thread. https://t.co/Urrzas4PWz" / X I will probably never run a real marathon. But I just finished my academic marathon: I published a book :) https://t.co/h69jERWbAZ Keep reading if you are interested in authoritarianism and/or Russia. Link to a free chapter at the end of the thread. https://t.co/Urrzas4PWz

New publication alert! Polisky Dictatorsky
Check out a new book "The Social Roots of Authoritarianism" by Natalia Forrat! You can find a summary here: twitter.com/forrat/statu...

Workshop of Institutional Ethics Review from University of Glasgow

Full summary by @rtapscott.bsky.social here: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

Lots of good discussion but I particularly related to the section on costs...

What is Institutional Ethics Review, and Why is it (Still) so
Unsatisfactory for the Social Sciences?
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Very interesting and fully-funded PhD opportunity to work on the role of women in Informal Cross-Border Trade (ICBT) along the border between the #DRC and #Uganda, under the supervision of @margotluyckfasseel.bsky.social
& Doreen Kembabazi www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Please circulate to anyone who might be interested. We are looking for a three year post-doc (starting Oct 2025) to work with us at the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge--in any discipline in the social sciences or humanities. It's a nice place to work! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49412/

For all of those considering attending the European Conference on African Studies in Prague next June, see if your research fits our panel ! Lamine Savané (University of Ségou) and I are convening a panel called "Digital Platforms and Armed Insecurity in African Crisis Ecologies".

As I am on it, here is another still very embryonic list bringing together people interested in and posting about armed groups across types, contexts and places. Again, please do chime in with additional suggestions in replies.

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Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.

🌍 We have just released a NEW global top 100 list of scientist and science communicators on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I map out the new emerging community: How are the research fields clustered? All likes, reshares, and love 😍 is appreciated! mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...